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Lucanians
Ancient Italic population / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Lucani (disambiguation).
The Lucanians (Latin: Lucani) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages. Today, the inhabitants of the Basilicata region are still called Lucani, and so is their dialect.[1]
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